William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge (August 28, 1850 – May 8, 1926) was an American historian , theologian and mountaineer .

Life [ edit ]

Coolidge was born in New York City as the son of Frederic William Skinner Coolidge, a Boston merchant , and Elisabeth Neville Brevoort, sister of James Carson Brevoort and Meta Brevoort . He studied history and law at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire , at Elizabeth College, Guernsey , and at Exeter College, Oxford . In 1875, he became a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford . From 1880 to 1881 he was professor of British history at Saint David's College in Lampeter and in 1883 he became a priest of the Anglican church .

In 1870 at the age of twenty he was made a member of the Alpine Club . Coolidge was one of the great figures of the so-called silver age of alpinism , making first ascents of the few significant peaks in the Alps that had not been climbed during the golden age of alpinism . On many of these climbs he was accompanied by his aunt, Meta Brevoort , and a pet dog, Tschingel , given to him by one of his guides, Christian Almer.

In 1885 he moved to Grindelwald, Switzerland , where he died in 1926.

First ascents in the Alps [ edit ]

• Piz Badile , 27 July 1867, with Francois Devouassoud and Henri Devouassoud ^[1]
• Ailefroide , 7 July 1870, with Christian Almer and Ulrich Almer
• Central peak of La Meije , 1870, with Meta Brevoort and three guides
• Unterbachhorn , 1872
• First winter ascent of the Jungfrau , January 1874, with Christian and Ulrich Almer
• West summit of Les Droites , 16 July 1876, with Christian and Ulrich Almer
• Pic Coolidge , July 1877 with Christian and Ulrich Almer
• Les Bans , 14 July 1878, with Christian and Ulrich Almer
• Southern Peak of the Aiguilles d'Arves , 22 July 1878, with Christian and Ulrich Almer
• Monte Matto , 14 July 1879, with Christian and Ulrich Almer
• Aiguille de Chambeyron , 1879, with Christian Almer.
• Scherbadung , 1886
• Chuebodenhorn , 1892

Selected publications [ edit ]

• Swiss travel and Swiss guide-books . Longmans, Green, and co. 1889. ^[2]
• The central Alps of the Dauphiny . 1892.
• Climbers' guides: Adula Alps of the Lepontine Range (T. Fisher Unwin, 1893)
• Walks and excursions in the valley of Grindelwald . J.H. Luf. 1900.
• The Alps in nature and history . E.P. Dutton and company. 1908.
• Alpine studies . Longmans, Green and co. 1912. ^[3]

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

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